Final test on stylistics and text interpretation

FINAL TEST ON STYLISTICS AND TEXT INTERPRETATION

For the forth year students

Name: G’ofurova Shohsanam Group: 419

Date: 21. 11. 2020 Gained Score:_______

Variant-298

I. Define the stylistic devices in the following sentences: 1 point per answer

1. "...the penguins put their bodies over the surface of the sand exactly as if they were swimming". Simile

2. His honour rooted is dishonor and faith unfaithfully kept him falsely true. Oxymoron

3. He was no gentle lamb and the part of second fiddle would never do for the high-high-pitched dominance of his nature. Metaphorical periphrases

4. How clever it is not to take umbrella when it is raining hard. Irony

5. Nurse was helping Annie alter Mother’s dress which was much-too-long-and-tight-under-the-arms … Personificated epithet

6. He was certainly the best hated man in the ship. We called him Mr. Know-All, even to his face. He took it as a compliment. Antonomasia

7. Some remarkable pictures in this room, gentlemen. A Holbein, two Van Dycks, and, if I am not mistaken, A Velasquez. I am interested in pictures. Metonymy

8. Mr. Dombey's cup o f satisfaction was so full at this moment, however, that he felt he could afford a drop or two of its contents, even to sprinkle on the dust in the by-path of his little daughter. Metaphor

9. Julia was not dissatisfied with herself. Litotes

10. Tim’s look expressed curiosity, difference, and affection. Mor’s look expressed affection, exasperation and remorse. Antithesis

11. No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn’t care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. Antithesis

12. Withal, the wind was more obstreperous, uproarious, and imperious than ever. Metaphor

13. Through the window was visible a small piece of the garden, some trees, and above the trees in the far distance the tower of the school. In front of Demoyte stood a table spread with books and papers. Inversion

14. The range of emotions was as grand as Grand Opera, but no subtler.

Simile

15. They were upon the whole, a well-matched, fairly balanced give-and-take couple._Epithet

II. Make the stylistic analysis of the following extract. Total score 15 points

1. 
   Say a few words about the author and his creation.
   

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was born in London, educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. 

Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4,000 essays (mostly newspaper columns), and several plays. He was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright, novelist, Catholic theologian[34][35] and apologist, debater, and mystery writer. He was a columnist for the Daily News, The Illustrated London News, and his own paper, G. K.'s Weekly; he also wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, including the entry on Charles Dickens and part of the entry on Humour in the 14th edition (1929). His best-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown,[5] who appeared only in short stories, while The Man Who Was Thursday is arguably his best-known novel. He was a convinced Christian long before he was received into the Catholic Church, and Christian themes and symbolism appear in much of his writing. In the United States, his writings on distributism were popularised through The American Review, published by Seward Collins in New York.

2. 
   Relate the plot of the story.
   

In the story of The Invisible Man, a mysterious man goes to a village called Iping, which is in the middle of a snowstorm. He then stays in an inn that is owned and run by the husband and wife George and Janny Hall. They ask him to not be worried about the storm, so he goes to his room with his luggage. This man’s name is Griffin, a scientist, who usually spends his time in his room experimenting with different chemicals and formulas.

He is an introverted guy, which becomes a huge problem as he lives in a town where the there is a lot of gossip.

Griffin goes outside at night; however, be keeps himself completely bandaged up and wears a fake nose. The villagers think that he is very peculiar, especially because there are suddenly weird break-ins and a lot of robberies start happening in the village. But things become worse when the owner Janny Hall asks him to pay up his overture rent or leave. So, he gets depressed and frustrated, taking off all his bandages and clothes and manages to disappear into the night with his invisibility tricks.

3. 
   Comment on the vocabulary of the extract. (Neologisms, archaisms, barbarisms, terms, slang, jargon, vulgarisms, dialectical words).
   

Jargon- gentlemen, lady

Neologisms: walking-coat, prosperous

Jargonisms: Wood smoke, lilac, vestigial repository

Professional Jargonisms, professionalism‘s, circulate within communities joined by professional interests and are emotive synonyms to terms. 4. The author used the following stylistic devices in this literary text.

a) The author's positive attitude to make is expressed by evaluating epithets- Her hair was dark, and her face was round and pale and seemed familiar to Francis. Her face was, in a wonderful way, a moon face.

b) The stylistic devices of a simile and metaphor- Her head was bent and her face was set in that empty half smile behind which the whipped soul is suspended. Rode through the weekend like a dory in a gale. He had not developed his memory as a sentimental faculty. Clouds and the hills were as they stretched off toward the sea, her face was set in that empty half smile,

In the cool blue twilight of two steep streets in Camden Town, the shop at the corner, a confectioner's, glowed like the butt of a cigar, she had something like the shadow of a smile- simile

c) The stylistic devices metonymy- the Weeds were to have dinner with the Farquarsons.

THE INVISIBLE MAN

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

(Extract)

In the cool blue twilight of two steep streets in Camden Town, the shop at the corner, a confectioner's, glowed like the butt of a cigar. One should rather say, perhaps, like the butt of a firework; for the light was of many colours and some complexity, broken up by many mirrors and dancing on many gilt and gaily coloured cakes and sweetmeats. Against this one fiery glass were glued the noses of many gutter-snipes, for the chocolates were all wrapped in those red and gold and green metallic colours which are almost better than chocolate itself; and the huge white wedding-cake in the window was somehow at once remote and satisfying, just as if the whole North Pole were good to eat. Such rainbow provocations could naturally collect the youth of the neigh­bourhood up to the ages of ten or twelve. But this corner was also attractive to youth at a later stage; and a young man, not less than twenty-four, was staring into the same shop window. To him, also, the shop was of fiery charm, but this attraction was not wholly to be explained by chocolates; which, however, he was far from despising.

He was a tall, burly, red-haired young man, with a resolute face but a listless manner. He carried under his arm a flat, grey portfolio of black-and-white sketches, which he had sold with more or less success to publishers ever since his uncle (who was an admiral) had disinherited him for Socialism, because of a lecture which he had deliv­ered against that economic theory. His name was John Turnbull Angus.

Entering at last, he walked through the confectioner's shop into the back room, which was a sort of pastry­cook restaurant, merely raising his hat to the young lady who was serving there. She was a dark, elegant, alert girl in black, with a high colour and very quick, dark eyes; and after the ordinary interval she followed him into the inner room to take his order.

His order was evidently a usual one. "I want, please," he said with precision, "one halfpenny bun and a small cup of black coffee." An instant before the girl could turn away he added, "Also, I want you to "marry me."

The young lady of the shop stiffened suddenly, and said, "Those are jokes I don't allow."

The red-haired young man lifted grey eyes of an unex­pected gravity.

"Really and truly," he said, "it's as serious — as serious as the halfpenny bun. It is expensive, like the bun; one pays for it. It is indigestible, like the bun. It hurts."

The dark young lady had never taken her dark eyes off him, but seemed to be studying him with almost tragic exactitude. At the end of her scrutiny she had something like the shadow of a smile, and she sat down in a chair.

"Don't you think," observed Angus absently, "that it's rather cruel to eat these halfpenny buns? They might grow up into penny buns. I shall give up these brutal sports when we are married."